SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of extensive experience in Web based applications.
• Over 6 years of experience in working on Web front end designing and development and web content management systems using Python PIL, Element Tree Library, HTML Tidy, XML, CSS,HTML, DHTML, XHTML and JavaScript.
• Experienced in Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts using Python.
• Experienced in web services like XML and Zope.
• Worked mainly for application software analysis, design, development and testing of web (all the phases of SDLC and Quality Assurance/Testing). Work involving System Study, preparation of Detailed Design (DD), performing and monitoring development (Coding), Report Generation, Unit testing and system and integration testing of the application.
• Experienced in apache web server, ftp and telnet.
• Expert in using Python Tidy for verifying the HTML code.
• Expert in using Beautiful Soup 3.0 in Python.
• Expert in developing CGI script for web applications.
• Experienced in using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python).
• Experienced in using Mod Python for developing web applications in Python.
• Expert in hand - coding clean, compliant and semantic code with cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility.
• Expert in identifying and using the most effective, cost efficient and best business practices to execute processes continually and evaluating their effectiveness and appropriateness.
• Expert in identifying, analyzing, and solving problems.
• Good knowledge on Unix/Linux commands.
• Able to work independently with little or no supervision and a dedicated team player.
• Good Team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and also capable of working independently even under high-pressure challenges.
• Highly motivated, dedicated, quick learner and has proven ability to build and manage a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Python 2.2-2.6
• Puppet 0.25
• LAMP Stack
• Zope
• PHP 5
• HTML 4.0/4.01
• DHTML
• XHTML 2.0
• HTML DOM
• XML 1.0
• XML Schema
• DTD
• XSL
• XSLT
• XPath
• XLink
• XQuery
• XPointer
• Java Script 1.7
• CSS
• AJAX
• JSON jQuery
• DOJO
• Beautiful Soup
• Python PIL
• Element Tree Library xlrd xlwt
• Smarty
• Dreamweaver
• C
• MySQL 5.1 w3c Standards web 1.0 web 2.0
• Photoshop
• Macromedia Authorware 5.0
• Flash MX 2004 (CS3)
• MS Office 2003 &2007
• UNIX
• Linux
• Mac
• Windows XP& Vista.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Burlington, MA

Puppet/Python Developer

Responsibilities:

• Using puppet and shell script created one step installation, rolling upgrade and rollback of servers.
• Wrote shell script that supported rolling upgrade with rollback support. Tools to build customizable rolling upgrade to update the service while its running with rollback support (for binaries and configuration).
• Involved in scripts written for Version control backed release model where all deployment artifacts were end-to-end version controlled.
• Integrated monitoring with Nagios agent auto-configuration also expanded to monitor service specific components.
• Wrote python scripts to parse XML documents and passed those variables to puppet scripts.
• Used SVN to control different source code versions.
• Wrote puppet scripts that automated installation of MySQL 5.0.
• Installed and configured Hudson 1.378 for continuous integration.
• Automated installation of Zmanda Recovery Manager.

Confidential, Long Island City, NY

Python Developer

Responsibilities:

• Using xlrd, xlwt generated and ready from excel sheet.
• Customized images for songs using Python Imaging Library.
• Created database using MySQL, wrote several queries to extract data from database.
• Worked with web designing team and fixed the formatting issues.
• Highly involved in writing MySQL Queries, Stored Procedure, Views well created and managed RDBMS.
• Created Log files containing data with discrepancies to analyze and re-process the data.
• Maintained versions of source code using git.

Confidential, New York NY

Python / MySQL Developer

Responsibilities:

• Used Django for generating the database online.
• Created scripts for generating HTML pages for books that worked on iPhone.
• Created database using MySQL, wrote several queries to extract data from database.
• Created specific images using Python Imaging Library for the custom images used for each book.
• Wrote scripts in python for extracting data from HTML file.
• Extracted data from ONIX XML file using ElementTree Library.
• Generated, QAed and also fixed bugs for the iphone applications.
• Generated property list for every application of iphone dynamically using python.
• Highly involved in the production of most of the applications delivered my Scrollmotion for iPhone.
• Used SVN for maintaining the versions of code.

Confidential, Broadway, NY

Python / MySQL Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the requirement given in functional Specification document.
• Designed using Microsoft Visio and got it approved by peers.
• Developed Python classes as per design developed. Tested it in the development environment.
• Worked on connecting to the MySQL database using PEAR. Wrote queries to extract the data from the MySQL database and used PEAR functions for data extraction and manipulation.
• Extracted the data from the front end application using Screen Scraping in Python.
• Worked with XML files generated XML feed to be used by the other modules and also parsed XML feed received from other sites to populate data in to data fields of the Website.
• Implemented Client side Form Validation.
• Highly involved in writing MySQL Queries, Stored Procedure, Views well created and managed RDBMS.
• Applied XSLT conversion to the XML Python PSP to HTML file.
• Implemented OOP concepts to create generic classes and made it available to be used by other programmers.
• Worked with template design team to get the templates and customize as per requirement.
• Created JavaScript files and included in Python script files.
• Implemented AJAX and simplified its usage using JQuery.
• Worked with web designing team and fixed the formatting issues in different browsers.

Confidential, NY

Python/ MySQL Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in database designing and development.
• Created User Registration module on Front-End using Mod Python and extracted the data using Screen Scraping.
• Interacted with the Bill payment service providers and developed the technical design.
• Developed the process using Python PSP, Apache Server, MySQL and XML.
• Responsible for installation of the Apache Server and Beautiful Soup.
• Involved in deploying application in Linux Server.
• Configured Cron Jobs using Python Script.
• All user input screens are developed in .net. Worked closely with .net developers in connecting those pages with website.
• Assisted .net developers in designing screens and implementing them
• Created scheduled jobs using Shell scripting and Python Script.
• Maintained versions of source code using VSS (Version Control Tool).
• Responsible for publishing reviewed code to the Production servers.
• Created Log Tables containing data with discrepancies to analyze and re-process the data.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Python/ MySQL Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Created the User Management for Different User Administrators Such as Super administrator, Client and Professional.
• Implemented a forum for open discussion for various users groups, such as Jobseeker, Employer, Guest, and Admin.
• Implemented RSS Feed to use this on various websites.
• Created Report Generator for various Projects to meet the current stage of the Project.
• Created Runtime HTML Files using Python. This is used for extra information if any client wants to put.
• Created Help Desk for user’s queries to meet the bulk queries submitted by the users.
• Involved in deploying application on LAMP Stack.
• Managed the Linux server and configure Cron Jobs and MySQL.

Confidential, West Berlin NJ

System Analyst/Python, MySQL Developer

Responsibilities:

• Customized Zope as a content management system.
• Created the User Management for Different User Administrators Such as Super administrator, Client, Sales Person and investigator.
• Created News Section for the latest updates for the different clients.
• Implemented RSS Feed to use this on various websites.
• Used Beautiful Soup to convert Python markup into parse tree.
• Created Report Generator for various projects to meet the current stage of the project.
• Created Help Desk for user’s queries to meet the bulk queries submitted by the users.
• Deployed in Linux Server.
• Managed the Linux server and configured Cron Jobs and MySQL.

Confidential, New York, NY

Web Designer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing Wire-Frame layouts.
• Independently designed the CSS layout and color scheme.
• Involved in communication with developers to understand their specific need for layout, color scheme and design.
• Involved in preparing concept as per users brief and implemented it into a final interface design using Dreamweaver, Photoshop.
• Involved in product usability tests.
• Implemented user interface guidelines and standards throughout the development and maintenance of the website using DHTML (HTML, CSS and JavaScript), JSP and SQL Server.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Independently created stimulation software for Confidential using Macromedia Authorware 6.0.
• Worked with a team to create blackboards for Confidential .
• Worked with a team for creating online interactive books for Pearson Publication using XML.